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Tuesday, December 16, 2003

A Few Odds and Ends

Sorry about my absence yesterday. I went for a bike ride down to Macon and bike to pick up some Jittery Joe's coffee for relatives. It will go into the coffee extravaganza Christmas packages we are making for them. The ride wasn't too bad though it was four hours in length and a bit chilly. Its been a while since I rode that far and so my body spent the rest of the day sort of protesting the event. I was fine until the low grade headache came on. Nice thing though was that I slept like a baby which was somewhat unexpected.

A culinary note here. If you ever have the urge to get some of the "low carb" pasta that a few of the outlets are selling, save youself the trouble and just boil up some corragated cardboard instead. It should be ready in less time (2 minutes in the water should suffice instead of the 10 recommended for the "pasta") and taste about the same. If you're looking for something for those low carb diets, go with the whole wheat pasta instead. The fiber will slow digestion and the taste is pretty darn good. The rest of the dish (Basalmic Rosemary Chicken Breasts with Zuchinni) was pretty good, though I feel like I need to find a way to cut down on the fluid content to make a better sause for the pasta.

Finally, some yahoo that writes and edits for Fortune magazine and it's online master AOL-Time Warner had the audacity to suggest that we are all pretty much just like Paris Hilton and the other girl on the MTV reality show. We're all just a bunch of clueless, spoiled socialites with a seriously skewed sense of what the world is really like. In his view we should be looking at each other and laughing just as hard as we do with them. I'm sorry, dude, but I have to disagree. I only have one TV, no cable and I don't use my cell phone except in emergencies. I can pump my own gas, cook my own food, do my own shopping, groom and clothe myself, do basic repairs around the house, grow my own food and all the rest. While I do have the internet and the technology to use it (evidenced by this missive) I am still amazed by the whole thing. I wonder if this guy wants us all to believe that we're as inept as these two for a reason or if that's just the way he sees the rest of us who don't spend our time compiling lists of the 100 richest somethings. I could go off on a rant here but I won't seeing how it's the Christmas season and all.

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